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Imo if you can run existing Android apps in resizable windows it would be a huge win. There are many well made Android apps that would work just fine as their own windowed applications



some would definitely work pretty well.

Several streaming services have native apps on both mobile & desktop. I think that their mobile apps could run pretty well on desktop.

For many complex apps though (like anything dealing with text edition), the lack of hover & right clics handling would be a pain. Android supports 'hover' events (and since API 1 IIRC) but nobody implements them in custom widgets.

Android supports mouse input but even as an android engineer I have no idea what the right click does in that situation.


http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEv...

BUTTON_SECONDARY is reported in the getButtonState() of the MotionEvent, but I'm not sure most apps ever check that. I would guess in a lot of cases, if there is only checking on pointer down and up, it will act like the left mouse button.


I know this is a cop-out, but wouldn't Google Docs work just fine in the browser here. I mean I haven't done any work on Google Docs, but I did use it all the way through uni.

Or maybe we should just force everyone on Vim and world would be more glorious and productive place.... right?




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